New Streets - South Auckland, Two Cities

Reporter Neil Roberts ventures into South Auckland in this TVNZ documentary, and finds two rapidly growing but very different communities. Otara and Mangere are becoming New Zealand’s industrial powerhouse, but a huge influx of Māori and Pacific Island workers and their families are struggling to adapt in a brand new city that was farmland just decades earlier, and lacks amenities for its new citizens. Meanwhile, to the east, Howick and Pakuranga are also booming but their more upwardly mobile, prosperous and very Pākehā citizens seem to be living in a world of their own.

I describe the situation in Otara as political dynamite. There’s a time bomb here and, if and when it blows, you better all watch out.

– Donna Awatere

Key Cast & Crew

Alan Thurston

Producer

Neil Roberts

Director, Narrator, Writer

Merata Mita

Research

Richard S Long

Camera

Brenton Ojala

Sound

Glen Molesworth

Editor